... consideration of the nonhuman elements (i.e., the “things”) of Bowen’s work also gives rise to a thinking about the posthuman, which this article approaches in two ways: (1) as, quite literally, a concern about the world after humanity; and (2) as a non-anthropocentric worldview, opened up by a realization that...

... (literally “whatness”) or thingness of the object. In Ulysses , Stephen learns a more valuable lesson: what lies in the liminal territory of his apprehension constitutes a knowable element of the object that lies beyond its sensible appearance. The “esthetic image” that illuminates his mind in A Portrait is...

... savagely literal-
ized corporeal metaphor.
Desire in the mud: “Prior to the script”
How It Is is a complexly structured, black-humored exploration of Beck­
ett’s aesthetics of need. The narrator is naked, crawling on his belly in
the dark through a world of mud. The framing structure and ultimate...

... pointedly reminds us that we
have been reading. Those “Historical Notes” also resolve an issue that
might never have been raised in their absence: how the words of a char­
acter denied books and writing end up on the page. Thus, like Gilead’s
oral/literate divide and Offred’s suggestive name...

...
the medium of comics can approach and express serious, even devastating,
histories.5
“I’m literally giving a form to my father’s words and narrative,” Spie-
gelman observes about Maus, “and that form for me has to do with panel
size, panel rhythms, and visual structures of the page...

... new literalism.” She writes:
“This project is an attempt to alter the currently received history of
twentieth-century American poetry by showing that Stein and (Riding)
Jackson have been, and continue to be, misunderstood as postmodernists
avant la lettre” (2).The book seeks to shatter all...

... consideration of new poetry. In Keniston’s account, “belatedness” is a multivalent term. In its more literal sense, it refers to the complex lag endemic to memory, to a broader structure of feeling (what we might call the feeling of “post-”), to the difficulties of representing the past and especially...

... frequently exiguous plots:
all these encourage the reader to look for meanings beyond the
literal, in a realm of significance that the novels may be said to
imply without ever directly naming. (Waiting 63)
Added to this, and operating as an unavoidable referent, is the fact of the...

... literal but also in psychological displacement, which is “the unconscious process whereby the emotional energy attached to one object is transferred in its entirety onto another” (69). Psychological displacement explains the central mystery of the novel, the murder of the convent women. In Wyatt’s reading...

.... It is literally framed by her birth and death: the bracketed epigraph “ [On my birthday] ” identifies it as a birthday poem, evidently composed sometime around her thirty-seventh birthday in February 1948; and its last line, “Awful but cheerful,” is one that she asked to be carved on her gravestone...

... favor of the Latin, the barrier to understanding facilitated a mystical
relation to the language, a relation that reinforced the transubstantial,
incarnational logic of other elements of the mass” (57). Lest readers find
such debates “literally parochial,” Hungerford connects them to some ma-
jor...

... representa-
tional practice like the grotesque that favors multiplicity and uncertainty.
It does this by showing how narratives of group identity do violence to
individual identity, a violence often represented through literally deform-
ing, grotesque effects on the bodies of characters. At the same...

... human characters or literally as the Dalloways’ beloved companions,
one of whom can be heard howling during Clarissa’s party. But animals
provoke special anxiety when they can be seen looking out from human
faces. Septimus Warren Smith, an avid reader of Darwin and a Great War
veteran who has...

... Freudian theory
a “repression and projection” of the “image of the Jew” (43) onto the fig-
ure of the woman,5 The White Hotel literalizes this gesture by excavating
the story of a female hysteric as the story of a suffering Jew. While the
trauma of conversion hysteria in psychoanalysis points to a...

...
least expected. Expert readers of Pound have generally agreed that his
early renderings of classical Chinese poems come closer in spirit to the
original than literal translations do. But few have been able to explain
convincingly how Pound, ignorant of the Chinese language at the time...

... in these writers.
The third turns to the choices that Walcott and Brathwaite make in their
language of expression. For Caribbean writers this is hotly contested ter­
rain, perilous with the crossfire of counterclaims about high vs. demotic
style, standard vs. creole language, oral vs. literate...

... turn of the century, outlines the various
strands of this discussion, tracing concerns about the debased nature of the
public sphere that resulted from the perceived threat of a newly enlarged
and literate “public” seen often as “volatile, unpredictable, inscrutable”
(18). The...